Hi.
It works, I'm in! Authentication mechanism set to External and five
colons after {PLAIN} the command "a AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL =" worked.
It was brute force that did the trick, after reading as much as I could
find about /etc/passwd file formats I was still none the wiser.
passwd file looks like this:
Stephen:{PLAIN}:::::nopassword=y
Anyway the result is below:-
---
* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE
AUTH=EXTERNAL] Dovecot ready.
a AUTHENTICATE EXTERNAL =
a OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE SORT
SORT=DISPLAY THREAD=REFERENCES THREAD=REFS MULTIAPPEND UNSELECT IDLE
CHILDREN NAMESPACE UIDPLUS LIST-EXTENDED I18NLEVEL=1 CONDSTORE QRESYNC
ESEARCH ESORT SEARCHRES WITHIN CONTEXT=SEARCH LIST-STATUS] Logged in
a list "" *
* LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"
a OK List completed.
a select INBOX
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft \*)] Flags
permitted.
* 0 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1268850687] UIDs valid
* OK [UIDNEXT 1] Predicted next UID
* OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 1] Highest
a OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
DONE
Perhaps in the great game of snakes and ladders, I have now finally
reached square one?
--
A big Thank YOU!
Stephen Feyrer.
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:10:57 -0000, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote:
On 17.3.2010, at 1.09, Stephen Feyrer wrote:
Hi.
I tried:
Stephen:{EXTERNAL}nopassword=y
{EXTERNAL} is never going to work anywhere, because there's no such
password scheme.
and
Stephen:{PLAIN}nopassword=y
This is the wrong format. It's more like:
Stephen:{PLAIN}::::::::nopassword=y
Just figure out the correct number of : characters (based on the wiki
page I gave or just brute force).
